In 2001 Afghanistan under the taliban had 30 square miles (78 km2) of land used for growing opium poppies (used to make heroin). In 2002
after American and British troops had removed the Taliban poppy production increased to 285 square miles (740 km2.

SUMMARY OF THE CHAD EVANS AND AMANDA BORTNER CASES rev 8/3/10
Chad Emery Evans was wrongfully convicted in December, 2001 in New Hampshire of the murder of Kassidy Bortner, the 21-month old daughter of his girlfriend, Amanda Bortner. Chad was initially sentenced to 28 years-to-life, and an additional 15 years subsequently were added to his sentence by the New Hampshire Sentence Review Division, upon appeal by the New Hampshire Attorney General.
The causes of Kassidy’s death and her injuries are disputed, but Chad was convicted of second degree murder. He was also convicted of related second-degree assault charges against Kassidy, and endangering the welfare of a child and one count of assaulting Amanda Bortner.
On 2 June 2000, Chad met Amanda Bortner and their love and relationship grew rapidly. By early July, Amanda and Kassidy were living at Chad’s home in Rochester, New Hampshire. Chad’s three-year old son, Kyle, also lived in the home several days a week, through shared custody with Chad’s former wife, Tristan Wentworth Evans.
On the morning of 9 November 2000, Amanda took Kassidy to the Kittery, Maine home of her sister, Jennifer Bortner, and her sister’s boyfriend, Jefferey Marshall, for babysitting for the day. Kassidy had a new bruise on one eye due to an accident the previous night when Chad was giving Kyle some batting practice with a brown plastic bat in Kyle’s bedroom just before bedtime. While wiffle balls were usually used for such fun, the ball that Kyle hit into Kassidy’s eye was a ball used in “Tee-ball” leagues. During his police interview on 9 November, Chad described the ball as a “hard rubber ball” and a “starter baseball.”
The resulting bruise to Kassidy’s left eye was the latest of a series of bruises which had been observed by several people during the October/November of 2000. Even in a time of growing sensitivity to child abuse, most of the responsible adults close to Kassidy believed that the bruises and injuries were unfortunate accidents, and that they didn’t require medical care right away. The life-threatening severity of the injuries was not known or suspected by anyone. Tragically, those adults, including Chad Evans, were wrong and/or oblivious, as there was something very wrong with Kassidy.
Shortly after Noon on the 9th, Jeff Marshall checked on Kassidy and recognized that she was in trouble and seemingly lifeless; and he made several phone calls for help, the last of which was to 911. The EMT’s and Kittery Police arrived quickly, but Kassidy was dead when they arrived.
As the man living with Kassidy’s mother, Amanda, Chad Evans was one of the four initial suspects, with the others being Amanda, Jeff, and Jennifer. By the time of Chad’s 7:10 p.m. interview with the police, and within about six hours of Kassidy’s death, the police were focused entirely on Chad; and worked thereafter to build the case against him. The case attracted considerable media attention, but Chad’s attorneys advised him to say nothing to reporters. At his December 2001 trial, Chad took his attorneys’ advice not to testify, and his attorneys decided to call only one defense witness. They called the nationally renowned forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, as they thought his testimony was sufficient to establish the reasonable doubt needed for a not-guilty verdict. However, their assessment was wrong, and the jury found Chad guilty of most of the charges. When Chad was sentenced, he again took his attorneys’ advice not to proclaim his innocence, in order to avoid angering Judge Tina Nadeau.
In November, 2002, Amanda Bortner was tried and wrongly convicted of child endangerment and sentenced to two years in jail.
For more information & contact info, see http://www.chadevanswronglyconvicted.org.
Chad Evans Wrongly Convicted Committee, 71 Sullivan St. Keene, NH 03431

Thank you to all of you, including a Mathematics Ph.D., who have educated me on the randomness issue. My initial reaction that the results were not random was based on the unusual skewing of the results and the possibility that the results were manipulated, warranting further investigation. I now see that while the results were not uniform, they are random.

Here is my own simplistic 2 step analysis:

1. Mathematically speaking, these results certainly could have have occurred naturally. As such, the results are random.

2. Even if the results did not occur naturally because of a “computer glitch”, the results are still random because no one in advance knew how to increase one’s chances. Thus there was a level playing field. Example: Lotto – 6 numbers drawn 1-40. Computer glitch causes a drawing in which the 6 numbers drawn are 1-6. But no one knew about it in advance. It would seem to be a strange result, but it is still random because no one knew about the glitch in advance, thus they were unable to modify behavior accordingly (buy tickets with those 6 numbers).

In retrospect, one can always see how to have improved one’s chances. In retrospect, a Lottery never seems random; one can always find a pattern. But the determination of randomness is based on equal probability: whether an individual was able to take advantage in advance, thereby increasing his or her chances. Here the answer is undoubtedly no. There is no evidence of anyone knowing in advance that the results would be skewed in such a manner; there is no evidence of people modifying their behavior to gain an advantage.

There are other reasons that this Lottery was conducted randomly, but as made clear in my May 17th letter to Mr. Donahue, no matter one’s view on the randomness issue, NOTHING could justify destroying the hopes and dreams of 22,000 people who played by the rules, as DOS has done by invalidating these results. NOTHING could justify this decision to break the honored commitment of the US government to these people. NOBODY, not even the non-winners, called for invalidating the 22,000 winning notifications.

There is an appropriate, fair, and reasonable way of going forward in this matter – and that would be to recognize the 22,000 winners and hold a new selection event in which an additional 78-100,000 individuals are selected. To not take this way going forward is an insult to these 22,000 individuals and flatly contravenes American principles of fairness and justice.

On May 1st, the U.S. Department of State opened a notification period for winners of the Diversity Visa Lottery 2012 (aka Green Card Lottery). The winning notifications urged the people to hurry up and send their paperwork to Kentucky Consular Center for processing. Many of the lucky winners had a chance to become U.S. Permanent Residents already in the Fall 2011 (i.e. the beginning of 2012 fiscal year). People changed their life plans, made important decisions and spent lots of money: declined prospective jobs, quit their apartments, hired attorneys, told all their friends about the big win.
On May 13, the U.S. Department of State invalidated previously announced results citing computer error that, according to them, made the selection not random. So far, the Department of State has not provided a detailed explanation of what exactly went wrong, neither did they explain why nobody tested the program or checked to make sure it worked before the results were announced. The Department of State also does not seem to mind that it took them almost two weeks to invalidate the results, allowing 22,000 people to invest both emotionally and financially into their immigration process.
We the notified winners demand that the Department of State proceeds with our green card applications according to the original selection. The government agency cannot take it’s promises and statements lightly, especially when they affect large numbers of people. We demand justice for the 22,000 winners.

Senior officials of the Canadian government are obstructing justice. This includes William Elliott, RCMP Commissioner and Rob Nicholson, federal Minister of Justice. My web pages gives details of my plight. I am currently on a hunger strike for justice.